is all the more horrifying as it follows two decades when such official restrictions did not exist, women worked in many spheres, and Afghanistan even had a woman candidate for President.

most people would assume that Arabic is the official language in Afghanistan. That is incorrect. The two most common languages in Afghanistan are Dari and Pashto. 2. The current flag of ...

Pete Hegseth's new "kafir" tattoo sits just below another inked phrase across his bicep. In Arabic, the term historically ...

Afghanistan was awarded full member status in 2017 but there is no women’s team in the country, and the players in exile have no official standing ... “We can’t use the flags so we use ...

Afghanistan’s national women’s football team have received support from a United Nations special rapporteur as they urge athletes worldwide to stand in solidarity as they fight their exclusion ...

After years apart under Taliban rule, former Afghan deputy governor Faiz has reunited with his son, Wasiqullah. Their ...

Holding camps have been established and Afghan refugees are being repatriated via the Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan’s Chaman district, according to a district official on Thursday. The second ...

Mufti Abdul Mutalib Haqqani, spokesman for the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, said that bringing the refugees back is official Afghan policy, but it should be under a joint mechanism with ...

An American woman who was detained for weeks in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released. That's according to a person familiar with the matter, as well as a social media post Saturday from a ...

An American woman has been freed by the Taliban in Afghanistan after she, two Britons and their Afghan translator were detained earlier this year, Washington’s former envoy to Kabul, Zalmay ...

Every two hours. That's how often a woman dies during childbirth in Afghanistan. The staggering maternal mortality rate is one of the highest in the world. And under the repressive rule of the ...